Jastrow: כַּרְכּוֹם II

כַּרְכּוֹם II, (כַּרְקוֹם, כּוּרְכּ׳) m. (v. כָּרַם, cmp. כָּרָךְ) [encircling,] 1) troop of siege, stage of siege. Keth. II, 9; Ab. Zar. 71ᵃ עיר שכבשוה כ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 80) a town which troops of siege have taken. Gitt. III, 4 על עיר שהקיפה כ׳ concerning a husband living in a town during a siege (that he is legally presumed to be alive), opp. to עיר שכבשה כ׳. Y. Keth. II, 26ᵈ; Y. Gitt. III, 45ᵃ top איזהו כ׳ what is called a stage of siege (for legal purposes); Ib. כ׳ של אותה מלכות a siege by the government troops of the country, opp. to a siege by the enemy. —2) camp of besiegers, the Roman castra. Ab. Zar. 18ᵇ ההולך … ולכ׳ whosoever goes to the arena or the camp; Tosef. ib. II, 6 ולכַרְקוֹמִין (pl.). Ib. 7 ולכ׳ (מותר) מפני וכ׳ and going to the camp is permitted for the sake of maintaining the political order, v. חָשַׁב Hithpa.—Pl. כַּרְכּוֹמִין, (כַּרְקֹ). Koh. R. to XII, 7 (ref. to לשום כרים על שערים, Ez. XXI, 27) עשה כ׳ he erected camps of siege (Lam. R. introd., R. Josh. 2 טירונין, v. טִירוֹן II). Tosef. l. c., v. supra.